Interstitial Spaces

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Pau Delgado Iglesias, still from "Estar igual que el resto / To be like the others."

Interstitial spaces also speak of concrete spaces—those that are supposedly unambiguous. Niches and in-between spaces are places of transit, transition, and change. In their indeterminacy they may welcome experiences of all kinds, but they also allow for the impossible and illusory to take hold. Sometimes they are functional spaces and, as such, places of a strange emptiness—of the inhospitable, of perseverance, of lingering. They speak of the Other, of what seems clear and unambiguous, raising questions, obscuring, and disguising.

The proposed artistic perspectives in this exhibition open up interpretations of in-betweens and thus, at the same time, question their opposite: the places that are supposedly concrete. It is thus revealed that unambiguity is arbitrarily produced through coexistence—in politics, culture, and society— arising from the power of consensus, from an agreement of many. Yet at the same time, it always produces its counterpart: the grey areas of the in-between.

The Interstitial Spaces exhibition takes the questions of CTM 2020’s theme beyond the margins of music.


Funded by the Senate Department of Culture and Europe. With thanks to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Embassy of Canada, and the Québec Government Office Berlin.

Facts

Opening: 24.1.2020  |  19:00

Runs: 25.1–15.3.2020

During CTM: 25.1.–2.2.2020  |  daily 10–22:00

All other days: 
Sunday - Wednesday 10:00–20:00
Thursday - Saturday 10:00–22:00

Venue: Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien

Artists and Works

Sophia Bulgakova[UA/NL]

"You Are Source Projection and Reflection", interactive installation, 2019

Calmspaces[NL]

"Ademruimte", installation, 2019

Pau Delgado Iglesias[UY]

"Estar igual que el resto / To be like the others", 3-channel video installation, 2014 – 2019

Anke Eckardt[DE]

"The Appearance of a Free Will", kinetic Sound Sculpture, 2020

Richard Garet[US]

"Perceptual Series", moving image installation (silent), 2013 – 2015

Dana Gingras[CA/QC]

"Chute Libre / Free Fall", video (11'41"), 2019

Wesley Goatley[UK]

"Chthonic Rites", sound installation, 2018

Loïc Koutana x NSDOS x Zorka Wollny[INT]

"The Ceremony", a performative series in three acts Rio de Janeiro / Berlin / Rennes, mixed media, 2019 – 2020

Nural Moser[INT]

"Safety Travelling", photographs framed in security frames, 2016 – ongoing

Marcus Schmickler[DE]

"Palace of Marvels [queered pitch]", LP, Editions Mego, 2010

Krista Belle Stewart[CA]

"Potato Gardens Band", video (23'), 2018

 

Michael Wick[DE]

"Non-Player Character"
Installation, 2019